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Basketball / Re: Will the Golden State Warriors lose in the 2015-2016 regular season?
« on: April 25, 2016, 03:16:50 am »
So they're already doing it:
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Basketball / Re: Will the Golden State Warriors lose in the 2015-2016 regular season?
« on: April 25, 2016, 03:09:28 am »
When I used to play indoor, pretty much all the gyms were slippery as fuck... especially those that weren't cleaned after other people played. Whenever I would play in one I would get very quad dominant - I would become afraid of planting too much in front of me with a straight leg.
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: MIC's Highest Jumper 45 Inch Vertical
« on: April 25, 2016, 03:07:43 am »
I don't think you can really "try it out"... it has to come naturally.
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Basketball / Re: Will the Golden State Warriors lose in the 2015-2016 regular season?
« on: April 25, 2016, 02:53:21 am »
Especially like that, because of a wet spot on the floor. I'm soooo scared of wet spots, if I feel I slip just 0.000000001% I completely shut down. I'm like whatever, I'll just be extremely slow and safe rather than risk serious injury.
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Basketball / Re: Will the Golden State Warriors lose in the 2015-2016 regular season?
« on: April 25, 2016, 02:20:21 am »
MCL issue/sprain
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: April 24, 2016, 09:56:08 am »
The "scorpion" dunk is the one dunk that Me and Nightfly, and a bunch of others, were doing before Kilganon did it, on low rims, and laughing our asses off about it, that nothing more retarded than that has ever been done as a dunk. We literally would roll around on the floor in laughter talking about it and trying it, because it looked soooooooooooooo funny.
Lo' and behold, years later, people are actually doing it seriously. Who knew?!
Lo' and behold, years later, people are actually doing it seriously. Who knew?!
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 24, 2016, 05:33:37 am »
Maybe it was some light reflecting off an airplane that you wouldn't otherwise see?
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Article & Video Discussion / Re: MIC's Highest Jumper 45 Inch Vertical
« on: April 23, 2016, 04:10:00 pm »
Check out his penultimate step at 0:27, look how deep his knee bend is on that left leg, never seen that in someone before.
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MUSiC anD SHeeT! / Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?
« on: April 23, 2016, 04:06:10 pm »430
Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 23, 2016, 11:43:04 am »
I don't see anybody with a gun at your head forcing you to make them all ME. Do them submaximally. Submax bounds focused on movement mechanics is a SKILL exercise which suits repetition and grooving. It's not a maximal effort it's decidedly submax. You can do thousands of them.
You practice them, get better at the SKILL of bounding, and you find out that covering the same distance takes less effort. Which means your movement efficiency improved and now, with the effort that you used the first time you did them, you can cover MORE distance and therefore you jump higher.
Why can't you see them as any other exercise? Why can't you just do a test, a maximal one, and say you get an average of 2.5 meters per bound, for 4 bounds. You put 4 cones at 2 meters and practice them for shorter distances, that will ensure fluidity in the movement using the correct mechanics, instead of crashing after each one (you don't do that anyway, I do that).
Then once per week or every two weeks you can try a ME set again, see where you're at.
Anyway, good luck.
You practice them, get better at the SKILL of bounding, and you find out that covering the same distance takes less effort. Which means your movement efficiency improved and now, with the effort that you used the first time you did them, you can cover MORE distance and therefore you jump higher.
Why can't you see them as any other exercise? Why can't you just do a test, a maximal one, and say you get an average of 2.5 meters per bound, for 4 bounds. You put 4 cones at 2 meters and practice them for shorter distances, that will ensure fluidity in the movement using the correct mechanics, instead of crashing after each one (you don't do that anyway, I do that).
Then once per week or every two weeks you can try a ME set again, see where you're at.
Anyway, good luck.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 23, 2016, 11:13:17 am »Raptor is stupid as usual, shooting 3s and doing a ME thing are completely different things.
So shooting threes is not about strength and skill? Try to put an old woman or a kid to shoot from three point land with perfect form (let's assume they have perfect skill from 3-5 feet) and see what happens with their form without strength. Try to put a powerlifter shoot a three pointer - see what happens with all that strength expressed with a bad form.
To say that bounding is not about skill is ludicrous. But let's assume it's 100% about power, no skill involved whatsoever. Guess what? The same thing can be said about power cleans, squats and so on (of course all these are ALSO about skill, power cleans are a complex movement that you can do "many ways", but only the proper, optimal way will have a carry over to athleticism). Squats? The same thing - by the same token, you can do sissy squats and call them "squats" and say "it doesn't matter how I do them, they're squats, no skill involved". Or maybe you could goodmorning every squat and call them "squats". You don't need to practice proper-form squats anyway, right? Because squats are not about skill.
Same with med ball throws. You can throw the med ball using your arms and with the hips completely fixed, see how much that helps your jumping. Or are med balls also all about "power" and not at all about skill and proper movement mechanics?
Bounds are more specific to jumping than any of these shitty things that you do in the gym. Guess what? The more specific they are, the more helpful they are for someone like you, who has a hard time expressing his strength and power in bodyweight, specific movements targeted at jumping.
It's just useless trying to induce sense into you. In fact, I don't know why I'm bothering, especially after what you wrote in my log months ago. At that time I said if I had an option for an ignore button or something, I would've used it on you.
Now go get that power clean going. In 8 weeks of power cleaning you'll move much better and your bounds that you don't practice will obviously improve by themselves, because they don't depend on skill or actually practicing them at all.
PS. If in my completely retarded mental state of right now I make more sense than you, that should give you something to think about. I'm out, good luck (honest sentence, no sarcasm).
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 23, 2016, 06:44:06 am »
What's up with the toe nails, I don't get it. It's something people have trouble with once they start running or what?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: April 22, 2016, 04:37:43 pm »
Sounds great, thanks for the detailed response. Here's one maybe weird question - I have dental work done, pretty significant - I'm kind of weary to, you know, expose myself to taking punches in my mouth/face, even light ones could do serious damage. How much does that mouth piece protect you? I mean if my dental piece detaches, even a little, it could be a catastrophe.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: April 22, 2016, 04:33:11 pm »
Yeah have someone film you, and then you can view the timer in the movie itself and find out your time.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: chasing athleticism
« on: April 22, 2016, 08:06:08 am »
Yeah, because in the bounds you were already at your genetic ceiling-level, and you couldn't have improved them anymore after doing them for 2 times. The situation is different for the power clean.